Song Lin and collaborators use electrochemistry to selectively synthesize chiral compounds – important in pharmaceuticals – using the reaction’s electrolytes, a completely new strategy.
Margaret Rossiter, the Marie Underhill Noll Emerita Professor of the History of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and known worldwide for her studies of the history of women in science, died Aug. 3. She was 81.
TRAPPIST-1 e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away, may have an atmosphere that could support having liquid water on the planet’s surface in the form of a global ocean or icy surface.
Through a new collaboration with the Einhorn Center, Cornell Engineering will ensure that every undergraduate student in the college participates in community-engaged learning experiences that apply their technical skills to real-world community challenges.
Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, assistant professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a biomedical sciences grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Cornell graduate students Nicole Verboncoeur and Jake Parsons earned 1st and 2nd Prize awards at SRF2025 in Tokyo for outstanding research in superconducting radio-frequency technology.
A new $5 million initiative, funded by the Astera Institute with experimental work conducted at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, aims to make diffuse scattering accessible to the public and the broader scientific community.
Pre-Orientation Service Trips, a program that offers incoming students four days of service, reflection and community-building, drew 40 first-year and transfer students together with six senior team leaders and two sophomores.